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Show SPORTLIGHT- 1 College Football Full of Varit ' By GRANTLAND RICE COLLEGE football in the badly mixed up U.S.A., will be one of the most scrambled sports on any map for 1952. It was known In advance that the Ivy League had no connection whatsoever what-soever with the Southeastern and Southwestern Conferences. The wide split concerned athletic scholarships, scholar-ships, student work, bowl games and almost everything else. Now it seems that the Southern Conference, the Big Seven, the Big Ten, the Missouri Valley and the Pacific Pa-cific Coast Conference Confer-ence are heading for Ivy League standards. At least a good part of the way. Each conference is entitled to make its own choice. It is app arently the The Southeastern wing ; ' Southwestern delegation t along minus any outside s ,, help. They have enough ; rivals at home to fill any g But the Southern, going fc scholarship reforms, will : ji duck such old rivals as Te til Georgia, Georgia Tech, Til r. such. Or be outclassed. If this split develops ther; c time enough to see which 1 the sounder. Only the ec; side certainly won't be help 1; football is given too big a j i much football and a sour,: i tion don't walk the sa: , which is something everjc: It will take some time to : , the many moves that k planned. E But as things look today : p be a wide gap in some of c. conferences where teams iNt to be ranked in different Ii: the athletic scholarship ; ; : set against the rest of tie I- This will give everybt '! confusion than the averagi t handle. But that's the w; & have to be if any fair rank ' pected. ci The Big Show These are big days si pleasant village of Area:1 The famous Santa Anita ' open for its 15th seaso: ; Charles Strub starts his 5 : as one of sport's fabuloit l: ers. 3 It was the San Fr.-.ncis: ' who sold DiMaggio to the '. and gave racing Santa Ar- This will be Santa Anita: '7 year. The total stakes : ' more cash than we can ad: busy day and was enoug: out owners with big stat q have a chance to win. s:. If you walk around th; j you'll run across such 1 1 a horses as Counterpoint, 19:. t:j ion, Hill Prince, Count TV.- cj .Winner), Windy City (E; Irish champion two-yean a: o'Roses, Palestinian, !' tr Wistful, Special Touch, E t: ( Tumble, Bryan G., Guillc-1 :;, Capitol, Hill Gail, A Glean i j horses from the stables j s Whitney, Greentree, V: Calumet, C. T. Chenery, i : F; never-ending list. :y This shot at big cash P: lured out the top jockeyi k Arcaro, Shoemaker, many of the track's bigge who can scent the odor of: money. Among the features an 000 Maturity, with Cc featured, the $100,000 . February 23, and the $100 cap. Grantl.nl Rlc. choice ol the j30"" eastern and the Southwestern Conferences to go out for even bigger and better football athletic scholarships, plus bowl games, freshmen playing and what else do you want? There are certain to be wide, sweeping changes over most of the football map. But there will still be football every bit as interesting in other sections as the Southeastern's and Southwestern's untrammeled conferences can put on. The main point is that the Southeastern South-eastern and Southwestern leagues can supply enough teams for most of the Bowls, since the Big Ten and West Coast take care of the Rose Bowl's destiny. For how long no one can say. Certainly ' the two Conferences from Georgia through Texas can see that the Sugar, Cotton, Orange and Gator Bowls are all supplied with Bowl teams. They may need some help, however, from stray wanderers such as Holy Cross, Fordham, Miami, Virginia and one or two others who are not in a Conference. Con-ference. The various college presidents have gone farther, in the main, than anyone suspected they would. This doesn't mean the Southeast or the Southwest where coaches and athletic directors still have control, which is the way those two sections want it. Different Football Teams that play with almost unlimited un-limited athletic scholarships attached at-tached have terrific advantages over those with limited or with no scholarships at all to dole out. The wonder of 1950 and 1951 was that Princeton, with no athletic scholarships, had teams that matched Tennessee, Maryland and Michigan State. |